A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 34

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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John Sherwood Harrison received his education in the common schools, and in 1871 became connected with his father in the mer- cantile line at Auxvasse, under the firm style of S. Harrison & Son. Mr. Harrison has been engaged for the greater part of his career, how- ever, in farming and stock raising, and now has a fine home and 660 acres of land, and is one of the leading cattle and mule growers in Callaway county. He was married in 1877 to Miss Mary C. Buckner, daughter of J. T. Buckner, a prominent retired farmer of Auxvasse, and four children have been born to this union, namely: Nell, a gradu- ate of the Synodical College; John, who attended the Westminster Col- lege, and was associated with his father and uncle "Jack" Harrison; was active in Presbyterian church work and had hosts of friends, died September 30, 1910, at the age of twenty-five years; Samuel Sherwood, who also attended Westminster, spent one year in the Citizens bank, Auxvasse, as assistant cashier, then spent three years in a like position in the Auxvasse bank, from which he resigned to co-operate with his father and to conduct a farm of his own, is now living at the home place, and not only greatly resembles his grandfather, but has also inherited many of his sterling characteristics. A young man of splendid judg- ment, he is of great assistance to his father, and much experience has given him the ability to skillfully judge stock, and at one time visited Kentucky to give his opinion on some fine blooded animals, at the ex- pense of Kentucky horsemen; and Floy Maddox, a student in the Synodical College.

Benjamin Franklin Harrison, brother of John Sherwood Harrison, and now a commission merchant in Chicago, was engaged in meat pack- ing as early as 1856, in St. Louis, in company with Levi Ashbrook. In 1862 he started to join the forces of Gen. Price, of the Confederate army, but in company with Ike Fulkerson was cut off from the com- mand, and when he was forced to cut his way through the Union sol- diers who surrounded him, his clothing was riddled with bullets. They eventually worked their way back to Callaway county, where they arrived on an old dun horse, which they had secured in Arkansas, although they had spent $600 in fitting themselves with equipment when they started forth. In 1862 he entered partnership with his

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brother, Crockett Harrison, who died in 1870, and they became the biggest cattle men of this section of the state, buying, selling and ship- ping to all parts of the country. In 1878 or 1879 Benjamin F. Harrison went to Chicago and established himself in the live stock commission business at the Union Stock Yards, continuing there until 1900, the year of his death, with the old firm of Smith, Harrison & Lackland, subsequently B. F. Harrison & Company. A man of versatile abilities and talents, he had been educated for the law, but preferred the cattle industry to the legal profession. While a resident of Missouri, he was always active in political matters, serving as a delegate to numerous conventions, and while in Chicago was urged to run for congress. He was a recognized authority on all matters pertaining to the stock yards, and was sent as agent to Washington, D. C., on matters of official impor- tance. His fraternal connection was with the Masons.

Mr. Harrison was married at the age of fifty-six years to Miss Cath- erine McCue, of Chicago, who died before he did, and they had a family of three children, namely : Lillie, who is now deceased; and Virginia and Eva, both single, who make their home in Chicago.

Probably there has been no family in northeastern Missouri that has held greater prestige than that of the Harrisons, at least in agri- cultural and stock growing lines. Its members have proved themselves excellent citizens in every way, discharging the duties of citizenship in the same conscientious manner that their private operations have been carried on. The name has invariably stood for uprightness of charac- ter and moral integrity and probity, and those bearing it are looked upon as representative men of their several localities.

JOHN JAMES GARWOOD. The owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of four hundred and thirty acres, Mr. Garwood is known as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Calla- way county and is also president of the Auxvasse bank, one of the sub- stantial and popular financial institutions of his native county. Pro- gressive policies and close application have brought to him distinctive prosperity, and in the meanwhile he has so ordered his course as to merit and retain the confidence and esteem of the people of the com- munity which has represented his home from the time of his birth and in which he is a scion of a sterling pioneer family.

On the old homestead farm, south of Auxvasse, Callaway county, John James Garwood was born on the 10th of June, 1858, and he is a son of Harvey G. and Mary W. (Stewart) Garwood, the former of whom was born in Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, in 1831, and the latter of whom was born at Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania county, that state, in 1825, a daughter of James and Eliza (Petty) Stewart. Harvey George Garwood came to Callaway county, Missouri, in October, 1857, and purchased a tract of eighty acres of land about three miles southeast of the present village of Auxvasse. He obtained this land for $10 an acre, and the same is at the present time appraised at about $80 an acre. On the original farmstead he erected the house that is still standing, and later he added seventy acres to his holdings. On this homestead he continued to give his attention to farming and stock- raising during the remainder of his active career, and his death occurred on the 30th of January, 1901, his cherished and devoted wife surviving him and being summoned to the life eternal in 1905. They became the parents of four children-John James, the immediate subject of this review; Thomas Marshall, who is deceased, dying in 1901; Harvey George, who died in infancy; and Robert Lee, who remains on the old homestead. The father was a staunch Democrat in politics and both

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he and his wife were consistent members of the Presbyterian church. They were folk of sterling character and their memory will be held in lasting honor by all who knew them.

John J. Garwood was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and has never foresworn his allegiance to the great and independent industry of agriculture. After attending the country school near his home he was a student for two years in Westminster College, at Fulton. Through his own energy and well ordered endeavors he has gained suc- cess worthy the name, and in connection with diversified farming he gives special attention to the raising of fine shorthorn cattle. His homestead farm, which comprises one hundred and ten acres, has been greatly improved under his control, and not the least of such improve- ments was the remodeling of the substantial brick house, which had been erected by the late Samuel P. Martin and which is now one of the most attractive homes in Callaway county, with modern facilities and appointments. In 1893 and 1902 Mr. Garwood purchased an addi- tional tract of three hundred and twenty acres, and he thus has a valu- able landed estate in his native county, the same receiving his careful supervision.

In 1907 Mr. Garwood was elected president of the Auxvasse bank, and he has proved an efficient and popular executive officer. This bank was organized in 1887 and was incorporated in January of the following year, with a capital stock of $13,000. Samuel Harrison was the first president of the institution, was succeeded by John A. Harrison, and upon the retirement of the latter Mr. Garwood assumed the presidency. John S. Harrison is now vice-president, Frank C. Stokes, cashier, and Wm. S. Hopkins, assistant cashier. The present bank building was erected in 1910 and is conceded to be the finest of the kind in Callaway county. The capital stock is now $30,000, and the fund represented in surplus and profits aggregates $35,000. A specialty is made of financial loans to farmers, and it is worthy of note that within a period of a quarter of a century the bank has lost less than $300 through ill advised loans. In 1907 an attempt was made to rob the bank, but the robbers were routed by the present cashier, with the assistance of Parris B. Bartley. Mr. Garwood has manifested no desire to enter the arena of practical politics, but is progressive and public-spirited as a citizen and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party.

On the 19th of February, 1896, Mr. Garwood wedded Miss Margaret Russell, who was born in Parke county, Indiana, on the 17th of April, 1870, and who was summoned to eternal rest on the 10th of March, 1911, leaving no children. She was a daughter of Edward C. Russell, deceased.

JUDGE J. M. LOCKHART. Living four and one-half miles north of Granger, Missouri, Judge J. M. Lockhart is one of the substantial farmers of Scotland county, and one of her prominent public men as well, having served with the highest efficiency as a judge of the county court. Mr. Lockhart is a native son of the county in which he has passed his active and useful life, since he was born on the farm of his father, the well-known Jefferson Lockhart, who passed away in the latter half of the last century

Jefferson Lockhart was born in the Old Dominion State in the year 1819. When he was twenty-eight years old, he moved to Missouri with his wife, who was before her marriage Margaret A. Waltman, of Vir- ginia. They secured a nice farm in Scotland county, and there they raised their family of eight children, and there they lived and died, Vol. III-15

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Jefferson Lockhart in 1872, and his wife two years later. Their off- spring were as follows: Mrs. Mary E. Billups and Mrs. Susan A. Davis, who are both dead; William J., who has also passed from this life; Margaret A., who is living at home; Mrs. Angelina Miller, deceased ; Virginia, who is the wife of Joseph Miller; J. M., the subject of this brief history; and J. W., who departed from life in November, 1911.

J. M. Lockhart spent his boyhood on his father's farm. He received his education in the country schools of his district, and was ready to start in farming for himself at the early age of eighteen. He went into partnership with his brother, J. W. Lockhart. Between them, they looked after more than eight hundred acres of farm land, divided into four tracts. Since the death of his brother, Judge Lockhart has managed this property himself. The greater part of his attention is given to the raising of live stock, although he grows successful crops each year. As in all things, the judge is careful and methodical in his methods of farming and of breeding animals, so his results fittingly reward his efforts.

A Democrat in politics, J. M. Lockhart's loyalty to his party and his community was rewarded in 1900, by his nomination and election to the position of county judge. Judge Lockhart's fulfillment of the obliga- tions of the office needs no comment, for he conducted himself in his public capacity with the same integrity that characterizes his private life.

Judge Lockhart is affiliated with one fraternal organization, the Granger lodge of the Independent Order of Foresters.

DAVID SCHENCK, JUNIOR, farmer and stock breeder of Miller town- ship, Scotland county, occupies a prominent place in the foreground of the progressive agricultural men of his section of the state. He was born in Iowa, February 5, 1876, a son of David Schenck, who was a native of Germany.

David Schenck came to America when he was a youth of sixteen and joined his brothers, Christopher and Joseph, in Iowa, in the year 1862. He farmed in that state until 1880, and operated a store in Morning Sun as well as looking after his farming interests. In 1880 he severed the ties which bound him to Iowa and made his way to Scotland county, where he purchased four hundred acres of land, with the intention of devoting himself to farming and stock-raising on a larger scale than he had attempted in past years. He continued to buy land surrounding him until he was the owner of three thousand acres. He soon became known as one of the biggest breeders of livestock in Scotland county, or, indeed, in northern Missouri. He fed and disposed of something like two hundred head of beef cattle yearly, and besides gave much attention to the breeding of Polled Angus cattle, of which he was the pioneer breeder in Scotland county. In 1910 he left the farm and has since resided in East St. Louis, Illinois. He married Mary Beck, of Morning Sun, Iowa, and she died in 1905, the mother of eight children, four of whom died in infancy. Three sons and a daughter are the remaining children of these parents. Adam lives in Memphis; Henry is a pros- perous farmer of Scotland; David is the subject of this review; while Alma married John Wolf, a farmer of Scotland county and a promi- nent breeder of Hereford cattle.

David was educated in the common schools and finished in the state university at Columbia and Westminster College at Fulton, his educational privileges being far above that of the average farm youth. His natural inclinations and abilities, however, led him into an agri- cultural career, rather than one of the professions, and the splendid

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success he has already achieved in the business which his father was devoted to for many years, has proven conclusively the correctness of his choice of a vocation. Mr. Schenck has a fine farm of four hundred acres, which he cultivates in connection with the old Schenck home- stead. He has a handsome herd of fifty Hereford cattle, as well as a fine lot of the Polled Angus breed, and his operations in an agricultural way are on the same large scale which characterized the business life of his father.

In 1904 Mr. Schenck married Miss Anna Schaefer of Lancaster, the daughter of Leonard Schaefer, and they have two children,-Esther Marie, aged seven years, and Paul Schaefer, now three years old. The family are members of the Presbyterian church of Memphis.

R. GRAHAM HEREFORD, M. D. A distinguished member of the north- eastern Missouri medical profession, Dr. R. Graham Hereford, of New Hartford, is the practicing physician of his locality, and has resided within the limits of Pike county since 1900. He is a native of St. Louis county, Missouri, and was born in Ferguson, May 25, 1870, his father being John R. Hereford, who practiced medicine in that locality for fifty-four years and was one of the leading citizens and useful men of his county. Dr. John R. Hereford was born at Point Pleasant, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1815, a son of William Hereford, a native of Mercer county, who was a farmer and public official of that county for .a number of years. He was also a member of the Virginia legislature and died in 1876, at the remarkable age of ninety-nine years. He owned a plantation, which he operated with slave labor and the results of the Civil war told heavily upon his fortune, he being reduced to humble circumstances among the farmers of ante-bellum days. Mr. Hereford married Miss Nancy Shun, who died, and they had the following chil- dren : Dr. John R .; Andrew and Thomas, who went to Texas and engaged in the cattle business; Mrs. Mary Beall, wife of Dr. Beall, of Eureka, Missouri; and Mrs. Emma Bland, of Galena, Illinois.

John R. Hereford acquired his first knowledge of life's serious duties as the son of a successful planter and he had ample opportunity to apply himself to the task of acquiring an education. He attended the high school at Gallipolis, Ohio, just across the river from his home, and first became enamored of the Ohio river and secured a place on one of its many boats. He reached the position of pilot after a time and transferred from that to the Mississippi river, standing "at the wheel" on that shifty and turbulent stream among the compeers of Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"), and under the same old Capt. Bixby, one of the conspicuous characters among Twain's writings about life on the Mississippi. After a few years spent on the Mississippi, Mr. Hereford decided to prepare for a medical career, and attended the old McDowell Medical College at St. Louis, from which he was graduated in 1842. He then located at Florissant, St. Louis county, Missouri, and practiced within seven miles of that place all of his life. He drifted into the popular occupation of farming with slave labor, and was thus rendered incapable of loyalty to the United States when the slave question pre- cipitated the Civil war. He took no part in the military activities incident to that struggle, but gave much aid in the way of medicines and other hospital supplies which could be smuggled over the border into Arkansas and into the hands of the Confederate authorities. Dr. Here- ford was a man who made his influence felt in his community during times of war as well as in times of peace. He was indispensable as a physician and the public admission of this necessity encouraged him to conduct derogatory to the promotion or maintenance of the Union senti-

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ment during the war. He was irrepressible and threats of arrest or confinement by the Federal authorities failed to seal his lips. He expressed his disunion and seditious sentiment in public places and upon any and all occasions, and although he was once arrested and thrown into jail, he showed no disposition to relent. Among his professional patrons was Gen. Bernard Farrar, a Federal officer who ordered the Doctor arrested for uttering sentiments against the peace and dignity of the United States. When the stout-hearted old Doctor would not promise to desist, he was cast into the dingy old city prison to "think it over." While incarcerated, a child of Gen. Farrar was taken seriously ill and needed the attention of the old family physician. The General sent down to the little jail an orderly to bring the prisoner-doctor to the Farrar home to attend the child. Dr. Hereford declined to go and sent the General word that his child might die, but he would give no relief. Back came the orderly with word that the officer in command had given orders that the Doctor be brought to the bedside of the afflicted child. Still he refused to go and reiterated his statements of rebellion, calling anathemas upon the heads of his persecutors. When Gen. Farrar proposed to release him if he would "keep his mouth shut"' against the use of his mutinous talk, he came back with the answer that he would stay in jail rather than have his liberty of speech curbed. The seriousness of the child's condition brought the General to terms of surrender and he threw back the bars which held his rebellious friend a prisoner, and permitted him to go about his duties unbridled during the remainder of the war, restoring the officer's afflicted child and prac- ticing his calling among the Unionists and Confederates alike hence- forth.

Dr. Hereford was married to Miss Mary Cozens, a daughter of Horatio Cozens and a Miss Sanguette, the Sanguettes being French people and pioneers of St. Louis county. Mrs. Hereford passed away in 1872, having been the mother of Sister Jerardine, a nun in the Carmelite convent at St. Louis; Mary, who died as Mrs. R. H. Hudson, of St. Louis, Missouri; Miss Nancy Hereford, of Ferguson, Missouri; James E., president of the St. Louis Trust Company, of Clayton, Mis- souri ; Dr. John R., a surgeon in the United States army in the Philip- pines; Gerald G., a ranchman at Union du Tecla, Jalisco, Mexico; An- nette, wife of C. H. Powell, of St. Louis, and Dr. B. Graham, of New Hartford.

B. Graham Hereford grew up in the town of Ferguson, attended the Christian Brothers College, St. Louis, and took the degree of Bach- elor of Arts there in 1887. From then until 1891 he occupied himself with farm work and with such clerical employment as came his way. He then entered the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons and finished his medical course in 1894, following which he located first in St. Louis county, where he practiced until 1905, when he removed to Louisiana, Missouri. He resided in that city until 1908, when he located at New Hartford. He is a member of the county and state medical societies, and was secretary of the county society for two years. He comes, politically, from a Democratic family and holds to the principles and practices of the Democratic party.

Dr. Hereford was married in St. Louis county, Missouri, October 21, 1891, to Miss Mary Thoroughman, a daughter of Thomas Thoroughman, a native of the city of St. Joseph, Missouri, of one of the early Missouri families, whose parents were from Virginia. Mr. Thoroughman was an officer in the Confederate army, and married Miss Mattie Boyce, and the children born to them were: Mrs. Dr. Hereford; Emmet B .; James C., deceased; Grace, the wife of W. F. Carter, vice-president of the Mercan-

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tile Trust Company, of St. Louis; Mrs. L. Cockrell, wife of Waldo Cock- rell, of Nashville, Tennessee, general manager for the southern district of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Hereford are : Ruth C., Thomas E. and John R.

Dr. Hereford is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Mutual Protective League and examines for both and for a num- ber of the prominent insurance companies of the old lines. He is local register for the Missouri State Board of Health.

ROBERT H. CRUMP, farmer, banker, and old resident of Paris, is a native son of Monroe county, Missouri, born near Florida on the 4th day of October, 1838. He is the son of William W. and Susan (Jordan) Crump, both native Virginians.

William W. Crump was born in Bedford county, Virginia, on December 4, 1800, and was the son of George Crump and his wife, Polly Gray, the latter coming of a family that was prominent in Virginia dur- ing the Revolutionary war period, members of which participated actively in the conflict, as well as in the War of 1812. The issue of George and Polly Crump were as follows: John G .; William W .; Susan and Rhoda, who died unmarried; Beverly; Abner; and Sarah. All these save William W. settled in Benton county, Arkansas, where many of their descendants still live. George Crump, the father, died in Bed- ford county, Virginia, in the vigor of his manhood, and his wife lived to be quite old.

William W. Crump obtained a liberal education in his youth and became a fine English scholar. He brought his family and his slaves out to Missouri in 1832 and settled near Florida, where he spent his remaining years, his death coming in 1875. He was one of the original Secessionists and was imprisoned for his outspoken encouragements of the Confederates and their cause, and was held by the Federals in Mexico, Missouri, for a few months. He was a Universalist in religion, a Democrat, and took a keen and intelligent interest in politics. He was an habitual student of the general trend of the affairs of the nation, and held a belief that the next great contest for supremacy in the United States would be that of the East against the South and the West. Wil- liam Crump married Susan Jordan, as mentioned previously. She was a daughter of Lee Jordan of Bedford county, Virginia, and she died in 1885, the mother of six children : John G., the eldest, died in California ; Amanda married Dr. Knox and died in Monroe City, Missouri ; Susan M. became Mrs. Lewis A. Hunt and died in Monroe county; Robert H. is the subject of this review; Dr. William A. practiced his profession in Scotland county. Missouri, and died there; Sarah R. is the widow of Garland P. Gentry, of Paris, Missouri.

Robert H. Crump was reared in one of the most enlightened homes of Monroe county, and he held his father as his ideal man and student. He was trained mentally as well as morally and came to mature years with splendid education. He began to teach before the Civil war broke out, and when it seemed that he must either enlist or leave the country, he chose the latter alternative and went to Canada, there remaining throughout the unsettled period of the war. He engaged in school work there, in Elgin county, Ontario, near St. Thomas. In later years he taught school at Armada, Michigan, and still later in Kane county, Illinois.

In 1866 he was married in Cass county, Illinois, after which he returned to his Missouri home and engaged in farming. He occupied the old home near Florida for several years, and now owns it. as well as other valuable farm lands near Paris. He has prospered with the pass-

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ing years in his farming activities, and in addition to those interests he has identified himself with the banking business of the district. He was a charter member of the Bank of Stoutsville, now called the Old Bank of Stoutsville, and is the president of it at this time. He was a mem- ber of the board of directors of the bank from the time of its organiza- tion in 1889, and was elected to the presidency of the bank upon the death of Judge Dooley. He is everywhere regarded as a man of excel- lent business ability, and one of the financially substantial men of Mon- roe county. He takes the interest of a good citizen in the politics of his district, his sympathies and support being with the Democracy, and he has no churchly or fraternal connections.

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A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 34

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912